However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with yet still we think they tell mo

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with, yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

Author: Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

However rare true love may be it is less so than true friendship.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

True love is like ghosts which everyone talks about and few have seen.

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.

The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.